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One_Life_To_Give

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6. Supposed to be the worst of the worst inmates

Tue Apr 10, 2012, 02:00 PM

Apr 2012

The inmates that proved to be too tough to handle in ordinary Maximum Security is what SuperMax was intended for. The ones that won't use a toilet because a bowl or bucket is better to throw it on a guard. The ones that take half a dozed specially outfitted guards to transfer them from one cell to another etc.

Don't know if everyone in there really needs to be or not. But the concept of SuperMax and it's exorbitant price tag didn't come about as a way to punish prisoners as much as a need to be able to handle/control those that couldn't be handled in a Maximum Security facility.

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Mothers Protest Inhumane Treatment of Sons in Supermax Prison [View all] Whisp Apr 2012 OP

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." n/t PoliticAverse Apr 2012 #1

Aren't the Supermax prisons shawn703 Apr 2012 #2

Supposed to be the worst of the worst inmates One_Life_To_Give Apr 2012 #6

The more I see of our country the less I recognize it. Doremus Apr 2012 #3

Yeah, but out of that 2.3 Million people in prison, only 80% or so are in for pot smoking Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #4

Wow. Neoma Apr 2012 #5

It's an estimate. Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #7

Would it save the government money... Neoma Apr 2012 #8

My position is, legalize and tax marijuana (and maybe psychedelics) adopt a harm reduction strategy Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #9

Except that even violent people are sometimes just really sick. Neoma Apr 2012 #10

I distinguish between harming/endangering others and ones self, however. Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #11